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Automotive Engineering

First Production Vehicle with Advanced Software Control

This technology, developed in the research project of the same name, replaces the entire control system with standard hardware and a kind of “operating system…

Materials Sciences

Unveiling Quantum Geometry in Graphene Lattice Insights

Among the most revolutionary concepts of modern physics is that the laws of nature are inherently non-local. One striking manifestation of this non-locality…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Mechanism

This circuit-level mechanism behind the process of motor recovery was elucidated by Prof. Silvia Arber's research group at the Biozentrum, University of Basel…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Climate Change Impact: Transforming Agriculture for the Future

Climate change will require major transformations in agricultural systems, including increased irrigation and moving production from one region to another,…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Prostate Cancer Formation: Key Genetic Insights

Prostate cancer affects more than 23,000 men this year in the USA however the individual genes that initiate prostate cancer formation are poorly understood….

Life & Chemistry

Cell’s Strategy: Preventing Misdelivered Proteins in Nucleus

In their research on protein quality control, Heidelberg scientists gained new insights into how the cell keeps proteins misdirected into the cell nucleus from…

Life & Chemistry

Mice Gut Protection: Microbes Influence Mucus Layer Differences

“Genetically similar mice with subtle but stable and transmissible intestinal microbiota showed unexpectedly large differences in the inner colon mucus layer….

Materials Sciences

Recognizing Legal Firework Items for New Year’s Celebrations

Millions of fireworks will be ignited again on this New Year’s Eve to welcome the New Year. The noise of fireworks is supposed to ward off evil spirits – a…

Physics & Astronomy

Choreography of Electron Pairs: New Advances in Matter Control

Physicists are continuously advancing the control they can exert over matter. A German-Spanish team working with researchers from the Max Planck Institute for…

Studies and Analyses

Luchs-Jagdverhalten: Aktivitätsmuster und Mittagsruhe Entdecken

Zu welcher Tageszeit ein Luchs jagt und wie aktiv er ist, hängt vor allem vom Verhalten seiner wichtigsten Beutetiere und von seinen individuellen…

Physics & Astronomy

'Perfect Storm' Quenching Star Formation around a Supermassive Black Hole

Now astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered that black holes don’t have to be nearly so powerful to shut down…

Health & Medicine

'Sugar-coated' microcapsule eliminates toxic punch of experimental anti-cancer drug

“We developed 3BrPA to target a hallmark of cancer cells, namely their increased dependency on glucose compared with normal cells. But the nonencapsulated drug…

Information Technology

Big data may be fashion industry's next must-have accessory

By analyzing relevant words and phrases from fashion reviews, researchers were able to identify a network of influence among major designers and track how…

Physics & Astronomy

Advancing Spintronics: New Insights from DOE Researchers

In a development that holds promise for future magnetic memory and logic devices, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley…

Physics & Astronomy

Ultrafast 3-D Imaging of Complex Systems at Atomic Resolution

One important step toward ultrafast imaging of samples with a single X-ray shot is understanding the interaction of extremely brilliant and intense X-ray…

Health & Medicine

Air Pollution Exposure Linked to Higher Autism Risk

“Our data add additional important support to the hypothesis that maternal exposure to air pollution contributes to the risk of autism spectrum disorders,”…

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